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dejecta.

any liquid or solid waste matter that is emanated, shed or discharged from the body. Dejecta include urine, faeces, sputum, pus, mucus, skin sloughing, lochia; their discharge can be nasal, aural, by expectoration, urethral, vaginal and so on.

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noun/dɪˈdʒɛk.tə/Received-Pronunciation/dɪˈd͡ʒɛk.tə/General-American/diˈd͡ʒɛk.tə/General-American
  1. any liquid or solid waste matter that is emanated, shed or discharged from the body. Dejecta include urine, faeces, sputum, pus, mucus, skin sloughing, lochia; their discharge can be nasal, aural, by expectoration, urethral, vaginal and so on.

    plural · plural-only
  2. any liquid or solid waste matter that is emanated, shed or discharged from the body. Dejecta include urine, faeces, sputum, pus, mucus, skin sloughing, lochia; their discharge can be nasal, aural, by expectoration, urethral, vaginal and so on. Especially, excrements

    plural · plural-only
    the dejecta of the cholera patients
Where this word comes from

From Latin dejecta (“things which have been cast away”), neuter plural of dejectus, past participle of dejicio (“to cast away”).

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